HOOMII(Khoomei),or throat singing,is a vocal art where one person simultaneously sings two pitches up to six octaves apart,a rare feat.Named a"living fossil of Mongolian folk music,"it is lauded as one of th...HOOMII(Khoomei),or throat singing,is a vocal art where one person simultaneously sings two pitches up to six octaves apart,a rare feat.Named a"living fossil of Mongolian folk music,"it is lauded as one of the"three treasures of the grassland,"the others being the Long Song(Urtiin duu)and Horse-head Fiddle(Morin khuur).展开更多
Nong Fengmei,50,is a farmer and singer of the Zhuang ethnicity from Poya Village,Funing County,Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture,in the frontier province of Yunnan.During a cultural resources survey,local ...Nong Fengmei,50,is a farmer and singer of the Zhuang ethnicity from Poya Village,Funing County,Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture,in the frontier province of Yunnan.During a cultural resources survey,local officials discovered in her home a piece of fabric bearing a time-honored script of81 pictographic characters.They turned out to be Zhuang folk songs.Nong is one of the few able to sing these展开更多
文摘HOOMII(Khoomei),or throat singing,is a vocal art where one person simultaneously sings two pitches up to six octaves apart,a rare feat.Named a"living fossil of Mongolian folk music,"it is lauded as one of the"three treasures of the grassland,"the others being the Long Song(Urtiin duu)and Horse-head Fiddle(Morin khuur).
文摘Nong Fengmei,50,is a farmer and singer of the Zhuang ethnicity from Poya Village,Funing County,Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture,in the frontier province of Yunnan.During a cultural resources survey,local officials discovered in her home a piece of fabric bearing a time-honored script of81 pictographic characters.They turned out to be Zhuang folk songs.Nong is one of the few able to sing these
